Abstract
This study is focused mostly on the psychological and emotional violence against girls and women. The implementation of the study is based on the use of the quantitative research method by spreading and completing the survey with 650 respondents from 24 to 60 years old. The detailed study aims to explore the causes and conditions which favor violence as a necessity to understand the roots of these social phenomena. This implies a comprehensive analysis of social, economical, political and sub-cultural factors which affect in the implementation of it. From the data of our survey there are some results: nearly 63.0 percent of the respondents said that they had suffered psychological violence. Insults, shouts and threats are actions which happen more frequently and the respondents say that they are the most disturbing elements. Most girls and women suffer from the psychological violence within their family. This kind of violence is mainly caused by men, by their husbands, fathers, brothers. DOI: 10.5901/ajis.2016.v5n3s1p91
Highlights
The sociologist Rose Maria Calla, who is a lecturer at the University of Trento has stated that: “The psychological violence is harder to be identified because it leaves no visible traces and it can only be defined as: offences, insults, humiliation, destruction or willful damage of an object, systematic refusal to do the housework or the educational control in everyday life and as the restriction of personal freedom and movement” (Corradi, C., 2008:225)
Psychological violence prevails in the family and is the more concerning, from the sophisticated strategies used, but because it is caused by a close person that knows very well the weaknesses of the victim and knows where to use the words
As stated by the analysts Giuseppe Ferrari and Valentina Penati: “The psychological violence is used by a person who is very acquainted with the victim, knows where are the weak points, knows what to say and how to say it, knows how to do the worst, because he knows the time when the word will hurt the most, because the violator is someone the victim trusts, loves him and in whom she leans for support” (2011:4)
Summary
The sociologist Rose Maria Calla, who is a lecturer at the University of Trento has stated that: “The psychological violence is harder to be identified because it leaves no visible traces and it can only be defined as: offences, insults, humiliation, destruction or willful damage of an object, systematic refusal to do the housework or the educational control (of children) in everyday life and as the restriction of personal freedom and movement” (Corradi, C., 2008:225). Violence is generally considered as something that is not harmful and it should be accepted in this way. The psychological violence is sometimes more harmful than the physical one. It can reach up to a person’s suicide
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